- Location
- Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston
- Type
- Residential
- Building
- Charlestown Navy Yard, Building 106
- Program
- 92 luxury residences
- Size
- 450 feet long by 60 feet high
- Approach
- Federal Certified Historic Rehabilitation
The Basilica posed a dual challenge: reinterpreting a unique industrial structure for much-needed housing, and restoring a historically significant building under the Federal Certified Historic Rehabilitation Program.
The building was converted into 92 luxury residences and renamed for its shape, after the recurrent building form of Classical architecture. The strength of the original design, 450 feet long by 60 feet high, is echoed in a new longitudinal atrium. Restored masonry, roofing and window details reinforce the direction of the newly masterplanned Navy Yard, a community of residential, commercial, cultural and recreational uses.
